It's not MAC!
 

Almost anywhere I go, I find Apple's products being spelled wrong, or capitalized:

MAC
I-MAC
Ipod
MACOS
etc.

Anyone know of any other spelling mistakes?

A site that comes to mind is my crappy ISP:
http://www.warwick.net/support/imac/Imac.html
http://www.warwick.net/support.shtml

They haven't updated their support pages in ages! They also use the <blink> tag...

Haha blink tag is so early Netscape years

I think it generally just comes down to people not being able to make the distinction between a product name and an acronym. and then there are people that don't realize things like, an iMac is a Mac, but a Mac is not always an iMac.

yeah i've noticed some people get really upset about that.

Also, most people probably don't know about MAC addresses (or the MAC sublayer).

Also gotta love people who go "I have one of those ithinghies and it don't work. Whats wrong" (sorry support call flashback loll)

I've seen MAC used in Facilities departments.

Move Add Change

The iPod capitalization problem can often be attributed to Words Auto fukup Correct. I loathe that feature, and promptly disable it on any of my personal systems.

I think the same problem exists in every day English. Lots of people appear not to know the difference between:

then and than
through and threw
know and no
new and knew
where and wear

and especially:

were and we're
your and you're

so I don't expect they'll ever get around to understanding the difference between MAC and Mac.

It is if you're shouting. :D

i am just lazy

I type:

imac
idvd
tcp ip
ldap
osx or os x or mac os x or macosx
mac

I think as long as you get the point across the context is not uber important

Maybe, but if somebody's looking for help they should try to avoid grammatical and spelling mistakes in their* post. I know I've skipped poorly written posts because I didn't want the extra work and hassle.

*That reminds me:

their, they're and there should also be on the list!

What about, affect n., affect vt/, effect n. and effect vt.?
Not to mention in force and enforce.

My beef is with the term Airport.
And I don't mean, I'm late for my flight.
Some people use the term Airport too generally.
Or even Airport Express.
Unless they provide a fair bit of detail it's hard to know what they mean.
Airport Extreme Card
Airport Express Base Station
Airport Extreme Base Station
And to then take the last two and say "I have an AEBS"....which one it that?
"I have an Airport Exteme and it's not working" - which one do I mean, I have all three, PowerBook's Extreme Card, and both Extreme and Express Base Stations.
Maybe Apple should give them different names or at least a model number besides A1034 (Extreme BaseStation).

I am overall unimpressed with apple networking hardware in general for the price.

I was able to use my reseller SPIF card to pay for all or part of it. So I looked at it as a "sale".

Actually, Macintosh is a mis-spelling of the name MacIntosh, a species of apple. Apparently it got mis-spelled that way waaay back in early days, Steve Jobs, Jeff Raskin, Brian Howard, Marc LeBrun, Burrell Smith, Joanna Hoffman and Bud Tribble decided it was distinct that way, and it has been that ever since. I can't recall where I read that, so don't ask.

Shouting eyesores and Mr Saramago
 

Yeah, I notice that both you and Missbeehive do this. Doesn’t bother me in the slightest. Your styles are consistent, and not once have I ever seen this cause ambiguity. After all, the point here on the Forum (and most other places) is to communicate.

I recall a Portuguese novelist, José Saramago, who was not particularly fond of using full stops. Didn’t stop him from winning the Nobel Prize in literature.

On the other hand, confusing acronyms and product/company names that should only have initial caps merely produces eyesore. Working as a copywriter, I have few qualms about breaking rules, but doing so should serve a purpose.

As did the poet and writer ee cummings (leave out all caps).

...and that should prove you’re in the best of company ;)

On a different note: I have a friend who had to fill out a form for the armed forces. (All Norwegian males have to serve.) The instructions called for block letters. So he fulfilled that requirement. On the other hand, he used his entire box of crayons or pens, :D giving each letter a different colour.

Some time later he received a letter in the mail, informing him that he had been found "unfit to serve".

Many of those forms now have "You must write with a pen in blue or black ink."

But then you should find the palest blue ballwriter you can - it won't copy in a typical copier.

Yellow
 

I think a user named Yellow had a sig about this MAC I-MAC thing...

And Georges Pérec pushed the concept even further:

His book "La Disparition" is entirely written without ever using the letter "e".

Certainly one of the most difficult books to translate...

But where there's a challenge, people always rise up to meet it. There actually have been 2 separate translations into English as well as translations into German, Spanish, Turkish, and Swedish.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Void
(Note that the plot summary in that Wikipedia article is itself a lipogram.)

my number 1, all time pet peeve is people who say "acrosst" or "acrossed"

THERE'S NO "T" AT THE END OF "ACROSS"!!!

You could have crossed a bridge on your way to work, but there's no way any one can ever go acrossed something.

oOI feel much better now

All of that is truthful and good, but a far cry from mistyping Mac, iMac or iPod. As in a prior post, making your point is a primary goal. Typing, punctuation, and grammar all aid in attaining that goal.

;)

My first lipogram! I'm so proud. :D

Good job!
But you misspelled "grammer"
:)

Not according to the OS X dictionary.

You misspelled "I don't get it".

I wasn't sure if you were joking or it was one of those rare words with two acceptable spellings. :o

That reminds me, I tip my hat to Google (and other various Search Engines that I do not use) for not being a pain in the rear-end when it comes to typing Mac OS X related stuff in their Search. It could be riduclously stupid, looking for seperate items (Mac, OS, X), but they make it cohesive enough to find what you are looking for.

Seriously though, Apple should have a commercial reinforcing the Mac brand. If they don't, it causes confusion in the market as well as bad PR.

I can see it now... ::Scooby Doo squiggly scene transition::

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We at Apple would like to reintroduce you to the Macintosh. And Windows. And Linux. And any other operating system you want to run. Now with the new Intel Core architecture, your possibilities -- business or personal -- are endless.

Oh, and by the way, it's spelled capital M, and lowercase a and c. If it were an acronym, we've been suggested to use "Massively Awesome Computer" if used in such a way.
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Cue Apple logo.

It is encouraging to see that even army guys are sometimes able to correctly decode extremely subtle messages ;) .

Followers of this thread might like to read "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" by Lynne Truss. The title is one example of many - is it about a Koala or about a guy who won't pay for his dinner? The comma makes the difference.